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Correlation of Norovirus in Wastewater with Gastroenteritis-Related Hospitalizations, New York, USA, 2022–2024
Ozioma F. Nwabor, Patrick Bryant, Dustin Hill, Mohammed Alazawi, Lynsey Schoultz, Aishwarya Jadhav, Ian Bradley, Mila Neyra-Blatz, Yinyin Ye, Kirsten St. George, and David A. Larsen
Author affiliation: Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA (O.F. Nwabor, D. Hill, M. Neyra-Blatz, D.A. Larsen); New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA (P. Bryant, M. Alazawi, L. Schoultz, A. Jadhav, K. St. George); University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA (I. Bradley, Y. Ye); New York State Department of Health, Slingerlands, New York, USA (K. St. George); University at Albany, Albany (K. St. George)
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Figure 9. Correlations between population-weighted concentration of norovirus genotype I in wastewater and incidence of all-cause acute gastroenteritis–related hospitalizations in study of correlation between norovirus in wastewater with norovirus-attributable and general acute gastroenteritis–related hospitalizations, New York, USA, 2022–2024. Blue line represents linear regression fit and gray shading indicates 95% CIs. A) Erie County; Spearman rank correlation coefficient (ρ) = −0.12. B) Jefferson County; ρ = −0.07. C) Onondaga County; ρ = 0.03. D) Westchester County; ρ = −0.04.
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